Month: October 2007

Rugby players will have one more reason to sneer at American football players, if ABC News is right about this new football helmet. It doesn’t […]

The idea that humans can somehow be unconsciously yanked around by pheromones – invisible, odorless, airborne chemicals – tends to make a lot of scientists […]

Like it hot? Sure you do. Nature reveals how hot peppers can make anaesthetics work more potently – and more selectively – by “opening the […]

Nature brings troubling news from the saving endangered species front. A study has shown that fish raised in captivity really don’t do well in the […]

Marketplace listeners may have heard yesterday evening’s story about the Cuban health non-crisis. Contrary to what you might expect from the western hemisphere’s last and […]

I remember “glassteel” being one of those fabulous, fictional substances that showed up a lot in sci-fi novels when I was growing up – the […]

Scientific American toasts the bountiful benefits of beer drinking as a brain booster: “There are human epidemiological data of others indicating that mild [to] moderate […]

That’s what Science Daily says. They’re reporting on the discovery by Lidia Morawska of the University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, that particles given off […]

New Scientist talks about a… thing in space. It’s not an asteroid. It’s not a comet. It’s somehow both: It has been officially designated as […]

Pope Benedict XVI is hosting the Vatican’s second astronomical conference in seven years, reports the BBC: Father Jose Funes, the head of the Vatican Observatory, […]

Nature unveils the unseen world of songbirds: They injected one tracer into the part of the forebrain known to be the only active area when […]